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Converting Daz characters

Here is the way to easily convert your DAZ characters to use them in Golaem Crowds.

EXPORTING FROM DAZ

1. Create your character in DAZ studio pro.​

2. Export it as an Fbx with this options enabled: Embed Textures, Collect Textures to Folder, Merge Clothing into figure Seleton, Convert Clothing into static Geometry.

CONVERTING DAZ RIG INTO MAYA

3. Open maya, set it to centimeter if it's not the case and import your fbx.

4. Rename your geometries with more nicer names.

6. Check your textures, with the options you've activated your character have already some textures applied.

7. ...Yet the shaders have all been converted to Phong while exported in fbx. Convert it to your will for your favorite render engine. In this case we will use vray. An easy way to convert all your shader could be to run the magic script maya2VRay by Paul Dreisen.

8. Test your shaders.

9. According to the options you've activated your character should be already skinned. But not clothes. Select your bones hierarchy and your clothes geometries and Smooth Bind.

10. Now select the already skinned body then the clothes and click copy Skin Weights.

11. Test your skinning, it should be Alright.

11. As Golaem doesn't support Segment Scale Compensate on bones please disable it on each joints, you may use this script:

$joints = `ls -type "joint"` ;

for( $joint in $joints )

{

setAttr -e ($joint + ".segmentScaleCompensate") 0 ;

}

CREATING A GOLAEM CHARACTER

1. Now open the Golaem Character Maker . select the root bone (Hip), click on Load Selected Skeleton and click Automatic Compute... It wont work correctly.

2. Close your Golaem character file without saving it. Select your root bone again, click on Load Selected Skeleton but this time drag and drop The template Biped.

8. On another side select your shaded character and save it as a .ma this file must contain every shaders to be used at render time.

To understand how to move and render your crowds please read the Quick Start Tutorial.

Notice: It may happen that your DAZ character have misplaced textures, this is due to the per faces assignation of DAZ shaders. To solve this problem go back into the Geometry mode of the Golaem Character Maker and click on Reset the Shaders , then save back your Character and render again, it should be fixed.